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bendecoste··on OpenAI Announces SearchGPT
Excited to try it once it is actually open for use. Anyone else find the the product gifs hard to follow with all of the motion and zoom?
bendecoste··on A framework to help B2B founders find product-market fit
The scroll on this website made me bounce
bendecoste··on Launch HN: Dart (YC W22) – Project management with automatic report generation
This looks very cool. In every company I've worked at the biggest hurdle with these tools is getting the entire team to use them and keep them up to date. I think that gen AI could provide tons of value with that problem (because most teams have members that don't update their tickets)

A while ago I had the idea that gen AI would probably be able to maintain a jira/kanban board of choice without people in your company being required to update it. You could track this based off what was going on with other company activity. E.g., looking at what people are saying in Slack, what commits a developer has pushed to GitHub, etc, what someone said they would do on a zoom call, etc.

Have you guys thought about any similar features in this space?

Congrats on the launch!

bendecoste··on Ask HN: What are my current self-hosted note/diary app options?
Doesn't quite meet all of your criteria but I have been quite happy with https://obsidian.md/
bendecoste··on Show HN: Cape API – Keep your sensitive data private while using GPT-4
Thanks for checking it out! That repo is not related to this project, did you see it on the main list on https://github.com/capeprivacy or somewhere else? We will try to avoid the confusion in the future.
bendecoste··on Ask HN: A good AI subscription for a new CS student?
Unless they already have some CS knowledge I would just start them w/ a chatgpt subscription, the notebooks could come later. Something like Poe would also be worth considering to get access to more models.
bendecoste··on Show HN: A community to share ChatGPT chats
Cool initiative, it would be nice if this had some form of quality control / polish (I guess that is what the upvoting is for once there is enough users).

The two I clicked on had lots of exchange where the model didn't know what the user was asking for, saying, "as an LLM, I cannot ..."

bendecoste··on Beeper: All your chats in one app
Looks very cool, will have to give it a try. How does a user experience someone else using brand new chat features from a different platform? E.g., what if someone on iMessage used the new sticker features while I am on beeper?

Small note -- In the "more features you'll love section", clicking the links makes the bubbles shrink and cut off the text for me (chrome on mac os)

bendecoste··on A Syntax for Self-Tracking (2020)
Makes me think of https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/ for your life. Any recommendations for tracking while away from your computer? I love ease of use but I think I would lose large parts of my day & weekends when not at my desk.
bendecoste··on macOS command-line tools you might not know about
Combined with the `yes` command is very good fun ;)
bendecoste··on Ask HN: How to deal with burnout and its consequences?
> My job wasn't overly difficult, but the corporate environment I found myself in was something I'd never done before and it was completely unsuited to me as an individual

Is the heart of your problem your career or this specific job / company? A change of scenery can do wonders to re-motivate and reinvigorate.

bendecoste··on Announcing SecureNN in tf-encrypted
SecureNN gives efficient secure ReLU's and Maxpooling neural network layers. This is done using secure multiparty computation (MPC).

tf-encrypted is a project that aims to bring secure technologies into a place that feels familiar to practitioners.

You can read more about tf-encrypted here: https://medium.com/dropoutlabs/experimenting-with-tf-encrypt...

and the project github here: https://github.com/mortendahl/tf-encrypted

bendecoste··on Private Machine Learning in TensorFlow Using Secure Computation
Hello everyone, we also have the supporting code we used on GitHub [1] as well as a higher level blog post published on Medium [2].

[1] https://github.com/mortendahl/tf-encrypted

[2] https://medium.com/dropoutlabs/experimenting-with-tf-encrypt...

bendecoste··on Google I/O'18: Keynote Livestream [video]
Not saying I agree with the parent but it's not like Google is going to call it quits here and not try to improve the tech to use in more situations.
bendecoste··on Learning Web Development? Skills to Make You Stand Out
charles proxy is not bad .. still have to do some self-signed stuff but it is fairly automated
bendecoste··on Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity
You only used one space in this comment ;)
bendecoste··on What Rock Climbing Taught Me About Engineering
If you want to climb with ropes imho it will be easier if you have a friend to learn with. You guys can go to pretty much any gym and get quick instruction on how to use the belay device they will have and then you are climbing.

Climbing outdoors I would recommend finding someone who is experienced. Outside is more dangerous and you should really know what you are doing or be with someone who knows what they are doing. Depending on where you are you can hire a guide to do this for you if you don't know anyone.

Another option is bouldering. This is where the routes are low enough to the ground where you don't need ropes. The routes (boulderers call them "problems") are often a series of moves where each is technical. Depending on where you are you can probably find a bouldering gym near you that will rent you shoes to get your toes wet. You can also find bouldering problems outside.

Climbing with rope or bouldering are both great activities. I would highly recommend both!

bendecoste··on Swift architecture at Uber
Kotlin has all of these features and build times don't (noticeably) suffer.
bendecoste··on Ask HN: Why Haven't GUI Front End Editors Caught On?
> Doesn't play well with source control. Even if the GUI builder spits out a text-based format like XML, it's hard to read and understand diffs, and it can be difficult to impossible to merge.

This is a bit more specific to Apple imho. Android layouts are also XML but much smaller and much more manageable in source control. The underlying xml of storyboard files are hundreds of lines long and often change just from opening the file, even if you don't change anything.

bendecoste··on Polaroid Cube
Sincerely curious, what kinds of profits do F1 teams make?
bendecoste··on Random JSON data generator
Does this have an API? I could see it being a great tool if it did.
bendecoste··on Why I killed my standing desk
If you go this route (which I also recommend), make sure you adjust your striking appropriately, you'll want to land mostly on the balls of your feet or your toes. Landing heel first in zero drop shoes will give you shin splints like you wouldn't believe.
bendecoste··on Thirty Years of Mac [video]
All the people OP mentioned are there, all 5.
bendecoste··on Free private Github repos for students and edu people
Why would public repos on github effect my private repo on bitbucket?
bendecoste··on Ask HN: How can I improve my personal website
Nice website, some visual suggestions:

1. Your name isn't centered vertically

2. You need some white space between your subcategory headers and the content itself, between java [x] [x] [ ] [ ] [ ] and Frameworks/Libraries (know what I mean?)

3. Jquery is usually written jQuery.

4. I think the centering is kind of weird, the content being centered looks good, but I think your headers should maybe be left-aligned. (same with your experience descriptions)

5. I think your contact me button is, maybe take a look at glyphicons (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/base-css.html#icons)

Having more information than what you rate yourself out of 5 on a specific piece of tech might be good, I am not sure how you are planing to use this website as a resume or not, though, so may be irrelevant. Also not sure how you might incorporate that into your current design.

Other than that it looks good, good luck!

bendecoste··on Erlang 16B Released
Also, if you decide to go with erlang, I would recommend http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content. It is written by the same guy, two great books.